In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimiás — long-thought dead — returns to the commune,
Satantango
✍ Scribed by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books;Tuskar Rock Press;Atlantic Books Ltd
- Year
- 1985, 2012
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 397 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0857897780
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✦ Synopsis
Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize
Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders weave, water drips and animals root desultorily in the barnyard of a collective farm. But when the charismatic Irimias - long-thought dead - returns to the commune, the villagers fall under his spell. The Devil has arrived in their midst.
Irimias will divide and rule: his arrival heralds the beginning of a period of violence and greed for the villagers as he sets about swindling them out of a fortune that might allow them to escape the emptiness and futility of their existence. He soon attains a messianic aura as he plays on the fears of the townsfolk and a series of increasingly brutal events unfold.
Satantango follows the villagers as they are exploited and taken in by Irimias; as they drink and...
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A Sátántangó, Krasznahorkai László első regénye 1985-ben jelent meg, s a rendkívüli kritikai elismerés és olvasói érdeklődés rögtön a kortárs magyar próza egyik alapművévé avatta. A szokatlan hangvételű történet egy olyan világlátásból született, amely még nem törte ketté a világot, s épp ettől lesz